This is from last year, a commissioned environmental thing for an elevator car in a NJ art gallery. This was fun as it was less song-oriented and the intent was to evoke a surreal elevator experience.
Thank you for the kind comments.uglysound wrote: Wed Mar 08, 2023 7:01 pm
This is awesome! More musical and more noisy than I expected from you talking about the project.
Is there a self-imposed purity on the signal chain?
Yeah, this is really fucking good man. I'm not just saying that.twelvepoint wrote: Thu Mar 09, 2023 4:05 amThank you for the kind comments.uglysound wrote: Wed Mar 08, 2023 7:01 pm
This is awesome! More musical and more noisy than I expected from you talking about the project.
Is there a self-imposed purity on the signal chain?
For a while there was an assumption that we write songs around what these machines can provide in natural acoustic realm, but with sampling and “digging deeper” with contact mics and effects opens up a lot of new possibilities for texture and composition.
Oh yeah, I could make that work. I got a Behringer neutron last year so I can probably use that filter. Good call.uglysound wrote: Thu Mar 09, 2023 7:27 amIn regard to your desire for "thump" maybe a resonant envelope filter with clean blend would work? Might be worth trying if someone you know has one that you can borrow. On a synth it's easy to patch a bass drum sound...just a resonant lowpass with volume and frequency controlled by a short envelope. I would think all of those building blocks are in a good envelope filter.twelvepoint wrote: Thu Mar 09, 2023 4:05 am
For a while there was an assumption that we write songs around what these machines can provide in natural acoustic realm, but with sampling and “digging deeper” with contact mics and effects opens up a lot of new possibilities for texture and composition.
This should be a common use case for Arduino based electromechanical stuff. You can get a Midi breakout board for an arduino that facilitates communication as a listener, using the old 5 pin DIN connector. MIDI is pretty easy to deal with as it's just serial communication, but the external board is 15 bucks well spent IMO and includes an optoisolator chip to protect your stuff.
Oh man, cool info. Still have no time for projects like this right now, but it’s good to see my ideas aren’t too off the mark. I’ve long wanted to learn some arduino coding and something like this would be a cool project for motivation. It’s on the list if I can find a new workspace.twelvepoint wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 11:05 amThis should be a common use case for Arduino based electromechanical stuff. You can get a Midi breakout board for an arduino that facilitates communication as a listener, using the old 5 pin DIN connector. MIDI is pretty easy to deal with as it's just serial communication, but the external board is 15 bucks well spent IMO and includes an optoisolator chip to protect your stuff.
I did this a couple years ago with a rig that plays tuned bells, kind of a MIDI carrilon. I'll see if I can find a photo. My thing used servos and not solenoids, and the servos had a dedicated power bus and the arduino was a low voltage controller. For solenoids, it's likely you'll eat some current, so likely some solution with FETs would be preferable. That should be a common use case as well.
Feel free to reach out if you want and I can sent photos or code if that helps. Again, should you go arduino, a MIDI listener situation is pretty well supported at this point, as are power transistors, so it should all be something that's not crazy to prototype, assuming, of course Arduino coding and wiring is something you'd be comfortable with.
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